Fall 2016 Course Information

English 1301.204/1302.207

Student Resources

Take a minute and interpret the following quote:

We have come to know that every individual lives, from one generation to the next, in some society; that he lives out a biography, and that he lives it out within some historical sequence. By the fact of his living he contributes, however minutely, to the shaping of this society and to the course of its history, even as he is made by society and by its historical push and shove. ~ C. Wright Mills

1. What do you think C. Wright Mills means?2. How does it relate to what you wrote about in your pre-reading exercise?